[PRCo] More on the bridges

Fred Schneider fwschneider at comcast.net
Wed Jul 24 13:28:05 EDT 2013


Gentlemen:

There was a complaint, perhaps four years ago, that Derrick's system purged all old e-mails from beneath the current message.   I think we are now seeing the advantage to that system.   If you guys will delete the old crap at the bottom before posting new links, then maybe the reader can find the new link….   :<)

fws


On Jul 24, 2013, at 1:01 PM, Dwight Long wrote:

> 
> Bob
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> Couldn’t find it.  Could you try again, please.  Ecartis strikes again.
> 
> Dwight
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> From: Bob Rathke 
> Sent: Wednesday, 24 July, 2013 12:30
> To: Western PA Trolley discussion 
> Subject: Re: [PRCo] More on the bridges
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> Attached is another photo taken by Pete Roehm on the 5/30/57 PERC fantrip to New Cas tle Jct. and the Foxburg switchback.  The four coaches and gondola car make this train easy to identify.  This photo stop l ocation was near YMCA Camp Kon-O-Kwee in Fombell which is on the B&O line between Pittsburgh and New Castle. Some of the passengers may be identifiable. 
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Rathke" <bobrathke at comcast.net> 
> To: "Western PA Trolley discussion" <pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org> 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 12:34:54 PM 
> Subject: Re: [PRCo] More on the bridges 
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> Attached is the flyer (scanned in two parts) for the PERC trip on 5/30/57.  
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> Also a photo taken at the New Castle Jct. stop by Pete Roehm who was act ive in PERC at that time.  In 1957 t he B&O was still operating steam locomotives on the Akro n Div. west .of New Castle Jct.  A couple of other steam locomotives can be seen in right background of the photo. 
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
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> From: "Dwight Long" <dwightlong at verizon.net> 
> To: "Western PA Trolley discussion" <pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org>, "PRCo" <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org> 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 10:07:37 AM 
> Subject: Re: [PRCo] More on the bridges 
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> 
> Dennis 
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> Interestingly the list notes the now gone bridge at Foxburg but fails to note that it was a combination railway and highway bridge.  The railway portion was in disuse in latter years of the bridge’s existence, but back in 1957 the forerunner of PTM, PERC, ran an enthusiast tour over the former P&W, then B&O line.  It ran from Pittsburgh to North Clarion Jct. and crossed this bridge, then ascended the Foxburg switchbacks (through the local golf course). 
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> I wonder how many current PTM members, beside me, were on that trip? 
> 
> Dwight 
> 
> From: DF Cramer 
> Sent: Tuesday, 23 July, 2013 09:24 
> To: PRCo 
> Subject: [PRCo] More on the bridges 
> http://bridgehunter.com/category/waterway/allegheny-river/ 
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> Dennis F. Cramer 
> http://home.windstream.net/dfc1/       
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